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An American Outlaw

John Stonehouse
An American Outlaw Book PDF

Author : John Stonehouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497463688

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The scion of one of the West's great outlaws comes home from the war in Iraq--Gilman James, the last of three childhood friends to return.His brothers-in-arms are mere shadows of their former selves--Gil, unmarked--determines to take care of them. But how far should a man go for the people he loves?Stepping across the line between right and wrong, Gil finds himself stranded in the Texan desert-as a bank heist he's planned goes horribly wrong. Pursued into the badlands by US Marshal John Whicher, Gil crosses paths with Tennille Labrea; an outlander, with her own demons to fight. Shielding a secret too precious to share with anyone, she's ready to cross her own line in the sand.What makes an outlaw? Marshal John Whicher, veteran of the First Gulf War thinks he knows. But can natural justice ever outrank the law? For three very different people a moment of reckoning is set in train: violent, defining; inescapable.

The Great American Outlaw

Frank Richard Prassel
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Author : Frank Richard Prassel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806128429

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This book explores in depth the origins, development, and prospects of outlawry and of the relationship of outlaws to the social conditions of changing times. Throughout American history you will find larger-than-life brigands in every period and every region. Often, because we hunger for simple justice, we romanticize them to the point of being unable to separate fact from fiction. Frank Richard Prassel brings this home in a thorough and fascinating examination of the concept of outlawry from Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, and Blackbeard through Jean Lafitte, Pancho Villa, and Billy the Kid to more modern personalities such as John Dillinger, Claude Dallas, and D. B. Cooper. A separate chapter on molls, plus equal treatment in the histories of gangs, traces women's involvement in outlaw activities. Prassel covers the folklore as well as the facts, even including an appendix of ballads by and about outlaws. He makes clear how this motley group of bandits, pirates, highwaymen, desperadoes, rebels, hoodlums, renegades, gangsters, and fugitives—who stand tall in myth—wither in the light of truth, but flourish in the movies. As he tells the stories, there is little to confirm that Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Daltons, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ma Barker, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Belle Starr, the Apache Kid, or any of the so-called good badmen, did anything that did not enrich or otherwise benefit themselves. But there is plenty of evidence, in the form of slain victims and ruined lives, to show how many ways they caused harm. The Great American Outlaw is as much an excellent survey on the phenomenon as it is a brilliant exposition of the larger than-life figures who created it. Above all, it is a tribute to that aspect of humanity that Americans admire most and that Prassel describes as a willingness "to fight, however hopelessly, against exhibitions of privilege."

Butch Cassidy

Charles Leerhsen
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Author : Charles Leerhsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501117497

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Butch Cassidy by Charles Leerhsen Pdf

"For a century Butch Cassidy has been the subject of legends about his life and death, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. Charles Leerhsen sorts out fact from fiction to find the real Butch Cassidy, who is far more complicated and fascinating than legend has it"--

American Outlaw

Jimmy Maxwell
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Author : Jimmy Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0997163208

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Jimmy Maxwell takes you behind the violent prison walls and to the top of one of Oklahoma's most feared gangs. Be there as he walks out the gates for the first time in 16 years.And stand with Jimmy -or against him- as the federal marshals go all-out to get him locked back behind them. His story is featured on MSNBC'S LOCKUP and Dicovery's IAGA"

Bill Doolin: American Outlaw

Bill Brooks
Bill Doolin American Outlaw Book PDF

Author : Bill Brooks
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645401988

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Bill Doolin: American Outlaw by Bill Brooks Pdf

Bill Doolin was perhaps the last great American outlaw of the nineteenth century. Once part of the Doolin-Dalton gang, he rode and robbed in the wild Indian Territory that would become Oklahoma. The Daltons were eventually shot to ribbons in their failed attempt to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. But Doolin went on to form a new gang that included notables such as Bitter Creek Newcomb, Black Face Charlie Pierce, a remaining Dalton brother, and the Rose of the Cimarron, Rose Dunn, sister of the notorious Dunn Brothers. Pursuing the gang was a tenacious group of U.S. marshals led by the famed Bill Tilghman. Doolin was considered something of a Robin Hood to the locals—everybody but those he robbed and killed. The marshals were determined to end his reign of terror no matter how long it took. The country, after all, was heading into a new century, and outlaws like Doolin no longer had a place in the West.

Wanted Man

Tamsin Spargo
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Author : Tamsin Spargo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781596919099

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Wanted Man by Tamsin Spargo Pdf

One September night in 1891 the Wild West went east. A masked man boarded the American Express Special train as it sped through New York State and single-handedly stole a fortune. His name was Oliver Curtis Perry, and he instantly became the country's most wanted man. While detectives searched in vain, the public and press couldn't get enough of the handsome, charismatic young robber whose physical daring was matched by stories of a troubled childhood and romantic life. Women adored him, boys worshipped him: America was falling in love. Five months later he defied belief by robbing the same train again. This time, after one of the most extraordinary chases in history, he was caught and sentenced to forty-nine years hard labor. But if the authorities believed they had beaten this celebrity criminal they were badly mistaken. Perry's prison life proved as remarkable as his robberies as he turned escape artist, protestor, hunger-striker, and finally poet in his determination to win his freedom. In Wanted Man, Tamsin Spargo brings this extraordinary portrait of a forgotten man to life once more as she tells his story of adventure and tragedy.

The King of Sting

Craig Glazer
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Author : Craig Glazer
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602392496

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The King of Sting by Craig Glazer Pdf

When Glazer was robbed while buying marijuana for his fraternity brothers, he decided to get even. He and partner Donald Woodbeck set up a series of fake stings across the country that netted them a fortune. It was a dangerous double life, one that does not lead to a happy ending.

The Kid

Ron Hansen
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Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501129759

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"Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the Old West. He was smart, well-spoken, attractive to both white and Mexican women, a good dancer, and a man with a nose for money, horses, and trouble. His spree of crimes and murders has been immortalized in dime westerns, novels, and movies. But the whole story of his short, epically violent life has never been told as it has been here"--]cProvided by publisher.

Outlaws of America

Dan Berger
Outlaws of America Book PDF

Author : Dan Berger
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781904859413

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The fiery true story of America's most famous radical fugitives, urgently and passionately told.

An American Bullet

John Stonehouse
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Author : John Stonehouse
Publisher : Whicher
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1723779628

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Winter in Colorado - a storm moving in, a passenger train collides with a car. US Marshal John Whicher, returning home to Texas, is called to give assistance, and locate a marshal riding onboard. On arrival, no trace of the man can be found. But a young woman asks to be arrested...An American Bullet, third in The Whicher Series, is a stand-alone story; as with all the titles, you can enjoy the books in any order.

Elmer McCurdy

Mark Svenvold
Elmer McCurdy Book PDF

Author : Mark Svenvold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Brigands and robbers
ISBN : 1841153230

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Elmer McCurdy by Mark Svenvold Pdf

Born 1880. Shot dead 1911. Buried 1977. These are the critical dates in the extraordinary life and afterlife of Elmer McCurdy.

Outlaw Machine

Brock Yates
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Author : Brock Yates
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780767905169

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Outlaw Machine by Brock Yates Pdf

The legendary story of Harley-Davidson's rise to power--not only as an international industry leader but as an American cultural icon. How did the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, originally a machine for casual riders, evolve into a symbol of defiance and liberation? An embellished 1947 Life magazine article about a California town terrorized by gangs of motorcycle punks changed the world's perception of motorcycles from sporty machines to menaces-to-society, and as the loudest and heaviest bikes on the market, Harley-Davidsons were considered the baddest of them all. Outlaw Machine chronicles the fascinating social history that built Harley-Davidson's reputation--including the rise of Hell's Angels and the counterculture classic Easy Rider--and, more entrancing still, the bike's and its company's storybook rise to international fame and popularity. Written by renowned automotive journalist Brock Yates, Outlaw Machine is the definitive book on the Harley-Davidson and its place in American culture.

Gun Crazy

Eddie Muller
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Author : Eddie Muller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692260269

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GUN CRAZY: THE ORIGIN OF AMERICAN OUTLAW CINEMA examines the history of the extraordinary 1950 film, from its genesis as a Saturday Evening Post short story through its tumultuous production history to its eventual enshrinement as one of the most influential cult films of all time.

Guns of Outlaws

Gerry Souter,Janet Souter
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Author : Gerry Souter,Janet Souter
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780760346457

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Guns of Outlaws by Gerry Souter,Janet Souter Pdf

"A look at the weapons used by infamous outlaws throughout American history, featuring stories of their use, glimpses into the minds behind the trigger fingers, and over 200 historical images"--

The Outlaw Ocean

Ian Urbina
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Author : Ian Urbina
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780451492951

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The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.